The Proteas and New Zealand shared the T20 series at the start of the Black Caps’ short tour to South Africa after Kane Williamson and his men won the second game at SuperSport Park in Centurion with 32 runs on Sunday afternoon.

South Africa won the first game in Durban on Friday by six wickets.

After New Zealand won the toss Williamson chose to bat first. He and Martin Guptill started the innings very well and soon they were batting at just over 9 runs per over.

After Williamson lost his wicket the South African bowlers managed to slowly bring the run rate down. But more importantly the wickets also started falling with regularity.

With Kagiso Rabada (3 wickets for 30 runs in 4 overs) at the forefront, the South African bowlers eventually managed to restrict the Kiwi batsmen to only 177 runs, while they have lost 7 wickets.

Only Guptill could actually cause damage. They managed to get to 60 runs before he was caught by Miller from Farhaan Behardien’s bowling.

Other batsmen of the Black Caps who did well was Williamson (25), Elliot (20), Neesham (28) and Munro (18).

South Africa’s innings started disastrous. Morné van Wyk (3) and Hasim Amla (14) was sent back to the pavilion in consecutive overs right at the beginning. Then AB de Villiers came in and immediately it appeared if he wanted to destroy the bowling attack man alone. After a few shots which made the crowd raven with pleasure, De Villiers made a mistake and he was caught by Neesham from the bowling of McCullum for only 15 runs.

From there it was a downhill path for the South Africans, although Rilee Rossouw (26), Farhaan Behardien (36) and David Miller (29) tried their best to keep the run rate up. After the departure of Behardien, not one of the tail end batsmen could get double figures and eventually South Africa was bowled out for 145 runs.